"Don Bartolo in ""The Marriage of Figaro"" with the Virginia Opera, and Don Pippo in Mozart's ""L'oca del Cairo"" for his debut with the New York City Opera. With the NYCO he toured North America in 1991-1992, performing the role of the Sacristan in ""Tosca"" in 57 cities. In 1992, he returned to the Virginia Opera to perform the title role in Donizetti's ""Don Pasquale"". In 1995, Roy performed the roles of Alcindoro and Benoit in Puccini's ""La boheme"" with the Utah Opera. In 1996, he portrayed the Marchese d'Obigny in ""La traviata"" at the Tulsa Opera and appeared as"
"La Bohème (Charles Aznavour song) La Bohème is a song written by French songwriter Jacques Plante and Armenian-French artist Charles Aznavour. It is Aznavour's signature song, as well as one of the most popular French-language songs and a staple of French chanson. A painter, recalling his younger years in Montmartre, remembers his artistic life and the years when he was hungry but happy. According to Aznavour, this song is a farewell to the last days of bohemian Montmartre. He also recorded Italian, Spanish, English, and German versions, as well as a rare Portuguese recording. It was performed at virtually every"
"called ""La Bohemia,"" for her 2008 album, ""Niña de Fuego"". Angelina Jordan recorded an English version of the song on her 2018 album ""It's Magic"". La Bohème (Charles Aznavour song) La Bohème is a song written by French songwriter Jacques Plante and Armenian-French artist Charles Aznavour. It is Aznavour's signature song, as well as one of the most popular French-language songs and a staple of French chanson. A painter, recalling his younger years in Montmartre, remembers his artistic life and the years when he was hungry but happy. According to Aznavour, this song is a farewell to the last days"
"La bohème (Leoncavallo) La bohème is an Italian opera in four acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo, based on ""Scènes de la vie de bohème"" by Henri Murger. The opera received a successful premiere at the Teatro la Fenice, Venice on 6 May 1897. Leoncavallo wrote his opera ""La bohème"" contemporaneously with Giacomo Puccini's own treatment of the same story. Leoncavallo later revised the work, titling it ""Mimì Pinson"", but despite initial respect, it did not survive. Puccini's version has become a standard in the operatic repertoire, whereas Leoncavallo's opera is rarely performed. Leoncavallo's version did not receive"
"bohème"", a four-act opera based on the 1851 book by Henri Murger, ""La Vie de Bohème"". ""La bohème"" premiered in Turin in 1896, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Within a few years, it had been performed throughout many of the leading opera houses of Europe, including Britain, as well as in the United States. It was a popular success, and remains one of the most frequently performed operas ever written. The libretto of the opera, freely adapted from Murger's episodic novel, combines comic elements of the impoverished life of the young protagonists with the tragic aspects, such as the death of"
"by Giacomo Puccini in 1896 and ""La bohème"" by Ruggero Leoncavallo in 1897. Puccini's became one of the most popular operas of all time, spawning several later works based on the same story. La Vie de Bohème La Vie de Bohème (full title in French, ""Scènes de la vie de bohème"") is a work by Henri Murger, published in 1851. Although it is commonly called a novel, it does not follow standard novel form. Rather, it is a collection of loosely related stories, all set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s, romanticizing bohemian life in a playful"
"Maurice Le Boucher Maurice Georges Eugène Le Boucher (25 May 1882 – 9 September 1964), was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue. Le Boucher was born in Isigny-sur-Mer. In 1904, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was a student of Gabriel Fauré. In 1907, Le Boucher won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome. Later, he became professor at the École Niedermeyer and organist at St. Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris. He wrote an Organ Symphony in E major, which was published in 1917 by Éditions Leduc, Paris. He wrote a drama on Oscar Wilde ""la Duchesse de Padoue"" which was"
"La Bohème (1926 film) La Bohème is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the opera ""La bohème"" by Giacomo Puccini. Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star as ill-fated lovers. Several struggling bohemians try to survive in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the winter of 1830, hoping to one day become famous. Playwright Rodolphe (John Gilbert) and his painter roommate Marcel (Gino Corrado) have trouble with Bernard (Eugene Pouyet), the landlord, who threatens to throw them out if they do not come up with the monthly rent that night. Rodolphe reluctantly starts writing an"
"""La Bohème"" by Puccini during the 1993/94 season at the Hessische Staatstheater Wiesbaden without the permission of the copyright holder. The opera was first published in Italy and Puccini died on 29 November 1924. At the time, Italy applied a copyright period of 56 years pma, so Italian protection had expired at the end of 1980: Germany, however, applied a 70 years pma period to works of German authors and the ""rule of the shorter term"" (Art. 7.8 Berne Convention) to foreign works. The Court ruled that the application of the rule of the shorter term between Member States was"
"death. Musette, who accidentally meets her there, sacrifices her jewels to procure fuel to warm the room for Mimì. As the Christmas chimes are heard, Mimì dies. Notes Sources La bohème (Leoncavallo) La bohème is an Italian opera in four acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo, based on ""Scènes de la vie de bohème"" by Henri Murger. The opera received a successful premiere at the Teatro la Fenice, Venice on 6 May 1897. Leoncavallo wrote his opera ""La bohème"" contemporaneously with Giacomo Puccini's own treatment of the same story. Leoncavallo later revised the work, titling it ""Mimì Pinson"","
"La Bohème (1916 film) La Bohème (aka:La vie de Bohème) is a 1916 silent historical film directed by Albert Capellani and distributed by World Pictures. The star of this version is Alice Brady, whose father William A. Brady was the founder of World Pictures. This film is one of many silent versions, actually the third or fourth. Later silent versions appeared in 1917 and 1926 starring Lillian Gish. Director Albert Capellani's brother, Paul Capellani, who appears in this film, had made his own short version in 1912. A print survives at George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection. This film only"
"Alfred Bruneau Louis Charles Bonaventure Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857 – 15 June 1934) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. Born in Paris, Bruneau studied the cello as a youth at the Paris Conservatory and played in the Pasdeloup orchestra. He soon began to compose, writing a cantata, ""Geneviève de Paris"", while still a young man. In 1884, his ""Ouverture heroique"" was performed, followed by the choral symphonies ""Léda"" (1884) and ""La Belle au bois dormant"" (1886). In 1887, he produced his first opera, ""Kérim"". The following year, Bruneau"
"bohème"" in 1968, and Mozart's ""Così fan tutte"" in 1974; other recordings were nominated for the award. Montserrat Caballé María de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé i Folch (; 12 April 1933 – 6 October 2018) was a Spanish operatic soprano. She sang a wide variety of roles, but is best known as an exponent of the works of Verdi and of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti. She was noticed internationally when she stepped in for a performance of Donizetti's ""Lucrezia Borgia"" at Carnegie Hall in 1965, and then appeared at leading opera houses."
"La Esmeralda (opera) La Esmeralda is a grand opera in four acts composed by Louise Bertin. The libretto was written by Victor Hugo, who had adapted it from his novel ""Notre-Dame de Paris"" (""The Hunchback of Notre Dame""). The opera premiered at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris on 14 November 1836 with Cornélie Falcon in the title role. Despite the lavish production, the premiere was a failure, and ""La Esmeralda"" proved to be the last opera composed by Bertin, although she lived for another 40 years. Partially paralyzed from birth, and basically chair-bound, Louise Bertin had"
"the most influential and important of French 19th-century operatic composers."" ""See: List of operas by Ambroise Thomas."" solo voice and piano, except where otherwise stated Ambroise Thomas Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas ""Mignon"" (1866) and ""Hamlet"" (1868). Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning France's top music prize, the Prix de Rome. He pursued a career as a composer of operas, completing his first opera, ""La double échelle"", in 1837. He wrote twenty further"
"La Commedia La Commedia is an opera in five parts composed by Louis Andriessen. A retelling of Dante's ""Divine Comedy"", the multi-language libretto was constructed by Andriessen using extracts from Dante's poem as well as several other sources including the Old Testament and the poetry of Joost van den Vondel. Andriessen describes the work as a ""film opera"" and collaborated closely with film director Hal Hartley in its development. ""La Commedia"" premiered on 12 June 2008 at the Koninklijk Theater Carré in Amsterdam. Following its Amsterdam premiere, ""La Commedia"" was performed in 2010 in concert version but with the same"
"""Manon Lescaut"" (Manon Lescaut) – opera composed for her voice and interpreted in première for Teatro alla Scala of Milan on 27 March 1897; Giacomo Puccini ""La Bohème"" (Mimì) – opera interpreted in première for America at Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires in 1896 and in première for Romania at Bucharest National Theatre on 15 January 1903; Giacomo Puccini ""Tosca"" (Floria Tosca) – opera composed for her voice; the soprano’s aria was requested to Puccini by Hariclea Darclée suggesting the principal musicals elements, too; the opera was interpreted in prima assoluta at Teatro dell’Opera of Rome on 14 January 1900"
"Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (; 22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called ""the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi"". Puccini's early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera. Later, he successfully developed his work in the realistic ""verismo"" style, of which he became one of the leading exponents. Puccini's most renowned works are ""La bohème"" (1896), ""Tosca"" (1900), ""Madama Butterfly"" (1904), and ""Turandot"" (1924), all of which are among the important operas played as standards. Puccini was born Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria"
"French opera French opera is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Rameau, Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen. Many foreign-born composers have played a part in the French tradition as well, including Lully, Gluck, Salieri, Cherubini, Spontini, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi and Offenbach. French opera began at the court of Louis XIV of France with Jean-Baptiste Lully's ""Cadmus et Hermione"" (1673), although there had been various experiments with the form before that, most notably ""Pomone"" by Robert Cambert. Lully and his librettist Quinault created ""tragédie en musique"", a"
"Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour ""Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour"" (often referred to as the ""Barcarolle"") is a piece from ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", Jacques Offenbach's final opera. A duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano, it is considered the most famous barcarolle ever written and described in the ""Grove Book of Operas"" as ""one of the world's most popular melodies."" The text, concerning the beauty of the night and of love, is by Jules Barbier. The piece opens the opera's third act, set in Venice. It is sung by the characters Giulietta – the protagonist Hoffmann's love, a Venetian courtesan –"
"A previous version of the story had been filmed in 1916 with Alice Brady in a production financed by her father William A. Brady for his World Pictures. The film made a profit of $377,000. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: La Bohème (1926 film) La Bohème is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the opera ""La bohème"" by Giacomo Puccini. Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star as ill-fated lovers. Several struggling bohemians try to survive in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the winter of 1830, hoping to"
"Ambroise Thomas Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas ""Mignon"" (1866) and ""Hamlet"" (1868). Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning France's top music prize, the Prix de Rome. He pursued a career as a composer of operas, completing his first opera, ""La double échelle"", in 1837. He wrote twenty further operas over the next decades, mostly comic, but he also treated more serious subjects, finding considerable success with audiences in France and abroad. Thomas was"
"a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 1877. It has been suggested that Delibes also wrote the ballet music for Gounod's ""Faust"", which had been inserted ten years after the original performance of the opera. Of Delibes's various operas, the last and most important was the lush orientalizing ""Lakmé"" (1883), which contains the famous coloratura showpiece known as the ""Légende du Paria"" or ""Bell Song"" (""Où va la jeune Indoue?"") and ""The Flower Duet"" (""Sous le dôme épais""), a barcarolle that Patricia Rozema made famous in her film ""I've Heard the Mermaids Singing"" and later used by British Airways commercials."
"Richard Wagner.</poem> <poem style=""margin-left:1em; float:left;""> To my courageous friend Mademoiselle Marie Saxe. The author Richard Wagner</poem> She went on to successfully sing many of the important soprano roles in the company's repertoire at the time, including Léonore in Verdi's ""Le trouvère"" (the French version of ""Il trovatore"") in 1861, Laura in Jósef Poniatowski's ""Pierre de Médicis"" in 1862, and Rachel in Halévy's ""La juive"" in 1863. In September 1863 Verdi decided to make a valiant attempt to resuscitate the sagging fortunes of ""Les vêpres siciliennes"". After the precipitous retirement of the soprano Sophie Cruvelli at the end of the first"
"Léo Delibes Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (; 21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French composer of the Romantic era (1815–1910), who specialised in ballets, operas, and other works for the stage. His most notable works include the ballets ""Coppélia"" (1870) and ""Sylvia"" (1876), as well as the operas ""Le roi l'a dit"" (1873) and ""Lakmé"" (1883). Delibes was born in Saint-Germain-du-Val, now part of La Flèche (Sarthe), France, in 1836; his father was a mailman, and his mother a talented amateur musician. His grandfather had been an opera singer. He was raised mainly by his mother and"
"La favorite La Favorite (The Favourite, sometimes referred to by its Italian title: La favorita) is a grand opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, based on the play ""Le comte de Comminges"" by Baculard d'Arnaud. It premiered on December 2, 1840 at the Académie Royale de Musique (Salle Le Peletier) in Paris, France. Originally, Donizetti had been composing an opera by the name of ""Le Duc d'Albe"" as his second work for the Opéra in Paris. However, the director, Léon Pillet, objected to an opera without a prominent role"
"Les bayadères Les bayadères is an opera in three acts by the composer Charles-Simon Catel. The French-language libretto, by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, is based on Voltaire's story ""L'education d'un prince"". It was first performed on 8 August 1810 by the Paris Opéra at the Théâtre des Arts with the famous soprano Caroline Branchu in the lead role of Laméa. ""Les bayadères"" was Catel's most popular opera. The success of the work was helped by a first-rate cast and the luxury of the spectacle. Among the star singers were Madame Branchu, Henri-Étienne Dérivis and Louis Nourrit. The dancers included Émilie"
"Boléro Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition. Before ""Boléro"", Ravel had composed large-scale ballets (such as ""Daphnis et Chloé"", composed for the Ballets Russes 1909–1912), suites for the ballet (such as the second orchestral version of ""Ma mère l'oye"", 1912), and one-movement dance pieces (such as ""La valse"", 1906–1920). Apart from such compositions intended for a staged dance performance, Ravel had demonstrated an interest in composing re-styled dances,"
"""La bohème"") survives as his only Grand Opera. In the 20th century, English opera began to assert more independence, with works of Ralph Vaughan Williams and in particular Benjamin Britten, who in a series of works that remain in standard repertory today, revealed an excellent flair for the dramatic and superb musicality. More recently Sir Harrison Birtwistle has emerged as one of Britain's most significant contemporary composers from his first opera ""Punch and Judy"" to his most recent critical success in The Minotaur. In the first decade of the 21st century, the librettist of an early Birtwistle opera, Michael Nyman,"
"La Juive La Juive () (""The Jewess"") is a grand opera in five acts by Fromental Halévy to an original French libretto by Eugène Scribe; it was first performed at the Opéra, Paris, on 23 February 1835. ""La Juive"" was one of the most popular and admired operas of the 19th century. Its libretto (text) was the work of Eugène Scribe, the prolific dramatic author. Scribe was writing to the tastes of the Opéra de Paris, where the work was first performed – a work in five acts presenting spectacular situations (here the Council of Constance of 1414), which would"
"Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (composer) Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne or Moyne (3 April 1751 – 30 December 1796) was a French composer, chiefly of operas. Born in Eymet, Dordogne, he first worked as a musician in Berlin and Warsaw, where in 1775 he produced his first opera, ""Le bouquet de Colette"", starring his pupil Antoinette de Saint-Huberty (""née"" Clavel). He returned to France and wrote the tragic opera ""Électre"", which received its premiere in 1782. Lemoyne claimed his music was following the example of Christoph Willibald Gluck, then the greatest influence on French opera, but when ""Électre"" failed, Gluck rejected any association with the"
"di una sola donna quelli di Mimì e di Francine?"" (""Who cannot confuse in the delicate profile of one woman the personality both of Mimì and of Francine?""). At the time, the novel was in the public domain, Murger having died without heirs, but rights to the play were still controlled by Barrière's heirs. The world première performance of ""La bohème"" took place in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and was conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini. The initial response of the audience at the first performance was subdued and critical responses were polarized. Despite this"
"Orfeo (Rossi) L'Orfeo (""Orpheus"") is an opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue by the Italian composer Luigi Rossi. The libretto, by Francesco Buti, is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. ""Orfeo"" premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on 2 March 1647. It was one of the earliest operas to be staged in France. Rossi had already written one opera, ""Il palazzo incantato"", for Rome. This aroused the interest of the French first minister, the Italian-born Cardinal Mazarin, who was eager to bring Italian culture to Paris and hired Rossi in 1646 to write"